New Look Industry Research Initiative to Foster Innovation

9:49 AM MST | November 20, 2008 | Alex Scott in Brussels

Cefic is today celebrating the 10th anniversary of the long range research initiative (LRI)-a program designed to provide answers to gaps in fundamental scientific data relating to chemicals and the environment and human health. The next step for the program will be to increase its influence in a range of fields including the encouragement of investment in innovation, by providing data to show that certain emerging fields of chemistry are safe, says Cefic. “If a chemical company is going to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in a new technology...